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Thesaurus: repair

To return.

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  1. v. i. To return.
  2. v. i. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
  3. n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
  4. n. Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
  5. v. t. To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
  6. v. t. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
  7. n. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
  8. n. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
  9. n. the act of putting something in working order again
  10. n. a formal way of referring to the condition of something
  11. n. a frequently visited place
  12. v. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken